Bay Harbour: July 04, 2018

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Wednesday July 4 2018
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Young chefs earn place in competition
• By Sarla Donovan
TWO PUPILS from Heathcote
Valley School have won a
place in a nationwide cooking
competition with a creole dish
from Reunion Island, east of
Madagascar.
The pair qualified for the Root
to Tip final in Wellington next
month where chef Al Brown will
feature as head judge to crown
this year’s winners.
The Root to Tip competition
has gone national after last year’s
trial in Canterbury proved a
roaring success.
Otis Swallow and Noah Cobby
from Diamond Harbour School
won the inaugural competition.
Year 6 pupils Nia McDonald
and Jean Taylor competed
against six other teams from
Canterbury to take the regional
crown with their choko gratin
and rhubumble crumble.
The pupils had to grate, slice,
cook and plate a creative and
delicious vegetable-based meal
from ‘root to tip’ – leaving little
or no food waste.
Team manager and number
one fan Rosamund McDonald
will accompany the pair to Wellington
where they’ll go head to
head with 20 other budding food
enthusiasts from around the
country.
Ms McDonald said the gratin
recipe came through the mother
WINNERS: Nia McDonald and Jean Taylor in action at the regional finals of the Root to Tip
cooking competition. ​
of a friend from Reunion Island,
an elderly lady in her 90s.
“Creole cooking uses lots of
garlic and thyme and choko is
very common there. Ours actually
came from Gisborne because
the season here was cut short
with all the rain. Everything else
was sourced from our gardens as
much as possible.”
The rhubumble crumble was
an all-local seasonal affair made
from the next door neighbour’s
rhubarb, apple, lemons and
Heathcote honey.
They were ecstatic about the
win after practising hard all
week, Ms McDonald said.
SCHOOLS
TASTY: The winning dish –
choko gratin.
“I’ve just been so proud of the
girls because they’ve worked so
hard. To have this sort of success
it’s got them really excited and
confident.”
The final is on August 2
with the winning pupils each
receiving a $1000 account with
RaboDirect, plus one-year free
membership to the Garden
to Table programme for their
school and a range of other
kitchen items.
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Canterbury District Health Board’s hospital shuttle is now running
from a new location at 33 Lichfield Street – the Christchurch City
Council’s Lichfield Street Car Park building.
Lichfield Street
CAR PARK
Hospital shuttle
now at Lichfield Street
Car Park building
Hospital patients and visitors should
park in the building and catch the
free shuttle from the pick-up area on
Level 2A. Pay for your parking when
you return.
The shuttle runs to the current timetable,
from 7.15 am to 8.30 pm, 7 days a week.
Journey times on the shuttle are around
15 minutes.
Learn more at cdhb.health.nz/parking
or call 0800 555 300
For parking rates see ccc.govt.nz/carpark
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